The Age of Innocence
The Age of Innocence
By: Edith Wharton
The Age of Innocence won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, making it the first novel written by a woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. In upper-class New York City in the 1870s, Newland Archer, gentleman lawyer and member of one of the city’s best families, is engaged to be married to the beautiful May Welland when her cousin, Countess Ellen Olenska, arrives and challenges all his assumptions.
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The Age of Innocence won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, making it the first novel written by a woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. In upper-class New York City in the 1870s, Newland Archer, gentleman lawyer and member of one of the city’s best families, is engaged to be married to the beautiful May Welland when her cousin, Countess Ellen Olenska, arrives and challenges all his assumptions.